Public Universal Fiend

what's a fourth amendment anyway

screenshot of a headline from NBC5 Chicago: Illinois' new mass transit bill means trips to O'Hare will get more expensive. Here's how much tolls will go up

take transit

*correction re: alt-text, this is an alligatorine, Stangerochampsa.

Cast of probably decayed plant material, Albian, Maryland

Back of a crocodile

#fossilfriday Mesozoic posting on main

CTA USERS YOU LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU'RE NEAR A CAR DEALERSHIP RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF AUTO STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON. THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY AS OF RIGHT NOW.

Trump's 10% bus tariffs are about to pinch city budgets across North America OTTAWA – A transit advocacy group is warning new U.S. tariffs on buses coming into effect this weekend are going to upend the budgets of cities across North America — and eventually residents and riders.

OTTAWA – A transit advocacy group is warning new U.S. tariffs on buses coming into effect this weekend are going to upend the budgets of cities across North America — and eventually residents and riders.

Hard as it is to believe, there was other paleo news yesterday! First, the "Dream Lizard":

M.E.P Fonseca et al. 2025.

Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo mosasaurio de Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal 29(3): 231-247

revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/es...

Americans are not going to like being citizens of an international pariah but that’s what awaits us when our government displays such senseless and blatantly illegal belligerence

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

if you put entitled kids in a room with even more entitled professors something stupid is bound to come out of it. if the kids are calling the professors racist a bit overzealously, that's the least of my worries and frankly none of my business.

Ooof

The largest war ship in the world has been moved to the Caribbean, along with other ships, bombers, amphibious vehicles and more.

That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.

It looks a lot more like preparation for war.

Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.

The biggest reason America isn’t run by alternating center-left and center-right parties like a more civilized country is that winning an election doesn’t actually allow you to enact most of the policies you ran on and so in the end all people can really vote for is vibes

The fact that Johnson won't call the House into session (now possibly not until next year) is about the Epstein Files, for sure.

But it's also about handing over complete control of this country to one man. It's about no checks and balances.

It's about Authoritarianism.
See what they are doing.

There's this common wisdom that all the veto points in the US system blocks wild policy swings, when it actually has the opposite effect: parties stew for years over everything they'll rapidly ram through by any means possible in their brief window of full power before it's gridlock for years again.

I am opposed to guillotines for private equity scum. Tree mulchers get the job done, too.

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

americans need to know exactly what they voted for. this is also why i'm fine with court expansion via act of congress and the inevitable reciprocation - it's still better than the status quo from a democracy perspective!

personally I think we should encourage parties doing things publicly with their majorities over trying to hide it with the courts and obscure executive action

a jury of my peers? 12 handsome gay over-read dilettantes with a penchant for louche self-soothing? i believe this is generally referred to as an orgy

Oh no

Zoomers need to get out more

The whole point of a polycule is more ppl to have sex with! Otherwise you just have a really fucked up and emotionally incestuo social circle !

>sexless
>polycule
Wtf

*John Doman narrated scary ad*

"Republican changed the rules just to raise the cost of your healthcare"

Mayor Wilson Puts Portland Housing Bureau Director On Leave Mayor Keith Wilson has put Portland Housing Bureau Director Helmi Hisserich on leave, effective immediately. City Administrator Michael Jordan sent an email to city councilors and city leadership on O...

Shake-up at the Portland Housing Bureau: Mayor Wilson put director Helmi Hisserich, an "unparalleled expert" on social housing, on leave with little explanation Thursday. She has been in the role since early 2024.

THE PEOPLE TOOK ACTION TO SUPPORT WORKER-OWNED FEMINIST MEDIA! THE FLYTRAP SECURED 80 NEW/RENEWING SUBS TODAY!!

and thus Panda the teeny chihuahua celebrated (???) accordingly

behold ye, the wee yoda-gremlin (as her big sister Fizzy looks on, skeptical as ever)

he's going to, and we will have to give chuck credit for doing his job correctly after ezra klein told the entire democratic caucus, in the NYT, to coup him from leadership if he did not.

Key: the filibuster has made Republican dominance of Congress possible. It protects Republicans from the consequences of making their objectively unpopular and also bananapants platform into policies everyone would hate, or refusing to do that by voting No on an abortion ban, outlawing the pill, etc